Hi All,
I’d love to get more involved in this discussion but time is not on my side. I start a major new project today and for at least the next few weeks my time is not my own. So I will confine myself to a few comments. I’ve been involved for many years now both at a theoretical and practical level with the development of automated intelligent design systems in information design.
Like Ranjan and Keith, part of that work involves inventing, discovering, and articulating rules for generating narratives and other patterns. I have then gone on to the next stage of generating software that can be used to apply those rules in specific contexts. It is at this point that the difficulties and limitations arise, and they do so because of the limitations of software languages and architecture. When I suggested in my last post that Terry was mistaken in his view about the radical potential of some new software, I was thinking about the above limitations of software languages.
The challenge lies there, in the software languages, not in the areas of application. Undoubtedly, we will have many new applications that will handle the kinds of things that Lubomir describes in architecture. In my own field these applications abound. For those of you who are interested have a look at the history and development of font technology around such issues as kerning pairs. There are similarities there with what Terry sees as radical innovation and which many of today’s designers just take for granted. But they still have the same difficulties producing text that is easily usable by people. That is why I think it’s just more of the same.
I will glance at this thread with interest, time permitting, over the next few weeks.
David
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